| For me, a sixty seven year old youngster, the boat cart is as essential as my paddle. By using the boat cart nearly every time I go out, I don't worry or even bother to park close to a put-in. The cart goes with me in the boat. As an example of another good boat cart use, there is a beautiful place in Three Forks, Montana, where the Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers combine to form the headwaters of the Missouri river. A delightful State Park. I like to put in at the confluence, the river turns this way and that with a healthy current, and I spend a happy hour playing downstream in currents, eddies around and under rocks, side currents, enjoy the woods, birds, then take out at a small boat ramp about a mile downstream, load the boat on the cart and walk one mile back up the road along the river and do it all over again. The complete body workout. By the way, walking the boat any distance is easy when you loop a tie-down strap through a doubled bungee cord with hooks through the mast-hole, to take up any shocks, loop the other end around your shoulder and walk the boat, with hand on the bow, any distance without tiring.
Happy paddling. |
